It’s hard being a patient. In 2006, I received a diagnosis that decimated my outlook on life. This was followed by a second opinion that revived it with an entirely different diagnosis and treatment ...

Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The Great Cleanup has begun. In advance of an MLB crackdown on ...

Too often as an oncologist, I have approached the gates of death with one of my patients. When a patient’s death is approaching, I can often see its coming shadow in a tint of the skin, a spike in ...

These are not good times to be a hitter in Major League Baseball. Through Wednesday, the league-wide batting average was .237, nearly tied for the lowest ever with 1968—the year hitters were so ...

There was lucre in lunacy in the Age of Reason. A new reliance on institutionalization made care for the insane a growth industry in Enlightenment England. But “mad-doctoring,” as it was known, came ...